Grinded vs. Ground

[Dodola]

My spell check's refuse to acknowledge grinded.

Also, grounded and ground have two completely different meanings. Ground is the past tense of grinding something into a paste or powder, or grinding against someone. Grounded means that something has been secured to the earth, usually in a metaphorical sense. As in, "She was a very airy and flighty person, but her friends kept her grounded." Also used as an alternative to being restricted when someone is punished.

The flight controllers were told to ground all planes.

'Ground', also with an on the earth meaning.

This is a tricky one, for sure.

Edit. Also, feet never left the ground.

 

[Dodola]

I guess it depends on if it's a verb, noun, or adjective in the context it's used?

 

[Writer61]

I’ve changed my mind three times since starting to write this reply.

Did you not chung your mind?

 

[Writer61]

Shakespeare used Digged and Bended in Hamlet and *Henry. But lots of people would say Dug and Bent are correcter. So... it's whatever you want.

Fine if you are writing a story set in Elizabethan times, or quoting Shakespeare. Otherwise, don't.

 

[RocketGrunt]

Grinded is archaic and informal. It is "incorrect" in formal writing, and it is dialectical elsewise. That is to say: while most people use "ground" and consider "grinded" a mistake, English is a descriptivist language and if people use a word and are understood it is by definition correct.

"Grounded" is the past tense of "ground" meaning to send or keep something down. "Ground" is the correct past tense of "Grind," meaning to rub against something abrasively. In the same way that "Found" is the correct past tense of "Find."

 

[Writer61]

English is a descriptivist language and if people use a word and are understood it is by definition correct.

Er, no.

Because I am able to make an educated guess about what the writer intended does not make it correct.

 

[RocketGrunt]

Er, no.

Because I am able to make an educated guess about what the writer intended does not make it correct.

It literally, genuinely does. In English you are straight up allowed to make up a word and use it. And if people understand based on context, it becomes a perfectly cromulent English word.

 

[Dodola]

Grinded is archaic and informal. It is "incorrect" in formal writing, and it is dialectical elsewise. That is to say: while most people use "ground" and consider "grinded" a mistake, English is a descriptivist language and if people use a word and are understood it is by definition correct.

"Grounded" is the past tense of "ground" meaning to send or keep something down. "Ground" is the correct past tense of "Grind," meaning to rub against something abrasively. In the same way that "Found" is the correct past tense of "Find."

I'm not sure that's founded on solid logic.

Founded in 1900

 

[Dodola]

It literally, genuinely does. In English you are straight up allowed to make up a word and use it. And if people understand based on context, it becomes a perfectly cromulent English word.

Rephrasing, I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm just mind vomiting examples that are confusing me.

 

[RocketGrunt]

I'm not sure that's founded on solid logic.

Founded is the past tense of "Found" meaning to start.

"I will found a new city." -> "They founded a city."
"I'm going to ground you, young man!" -> "Larry was grounded."
"I will find my car keys." -> "Sarah found her car keys."
"I'll grind your bones to make my bread!" -> "Jack's bones were ground.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

For a true gamer, there's only the grind!

And yes, grinding, and grinded too.

No gamer says I've ground these mobs for five hours...
(yeah, I've done such a thing often, once... )

Ground is the past tense of the verb grind.

Grounded as a verb is (in my reconstruction) the past tense of the verbification of the noun ground. To ground something means to have it touch or penetrate the ground. Verbifying ground would result in the past tense grounded.

The most common use of "grounded" is probably in electrical/electronics work, meaning connecting to the earth (as a zero-voltage source).

--Annie

 

[AG31]

She grinded her teeth in her sleep.
That sounds correct.

Not to me.

 

[Dodola]

Ground is the past tense of the verb grind.

Grounded as a verb is (in my reconstruction) the past tense of the verbification of the noun ground. To ground something means to have it touch or penetrate the ground. Verbifying ground would result in the past tense grounded.

The most common use of "grounded" is probably in electrical/electronics work, meaning connecting to the earth (as a zero-voltage source).

--Annie

Also an adjective, too, right?

Ground coffee, ground corn, etc

And a noun? Get off the ground.

 

[Dodola]

Who in their right mind would want to try to learn english??

Smh

 

[IWroteThis]

The one that really grinds on me is people who use casted as the past tense of cast.
No, the wizard did not casted a spell…

 

[MK_Whimsy]

I use "ground" simply because the consensus seems to be that that's more correct. But at the same time, I don't like it and would be open to normalizing "grinded." "Grinded" just feels more intense and visceral to me, whereas "ground" makes me think of making coffee.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

Who in their right mind would want to try to learn english??

Smh

It's widely considered one of the hardest languages to learn, unless you learn as an infant.

In terms of writing, apparently it's a contest between Japanese and Thai.

 

[Statius]

Can't do it, couldn't do it. Grind, grinding, ground. Everything else makes my ears bleed and my brain scream.

 

[Britva415]

Is this a US versus the rest of the world thing?

For me, as a Brit, 'ground' is the only option (following the 'find/found' pattern).

No

 

[XerXesXu]

Grounden appears in Merriam- Webster as perfect participle of grind, but not in Oxford.

 

[SmilingLez]

I use "ground" simply because the consensus seems to be that that's more correct. But at the same time, I don't like it and would be open to normalizing "grinded." "Grinded" just feels more intense and visceral to me, whereas "ground" makes me think of making coffee.

Or what you walk on

 

[ElectricBlue]

Grinded just doesn't quite sound right to my ears. How does it sound to your ears? What version do you use when you write?

Chalk on a blackboard for me, it's not a word. Not as bad as cummed, but in the same bucket.

 

[IWroteThis]

Or what you walk on

No, that's the floor, according to the same folks who use casted.

 

[Erozetta]

I will literally rewrite the sentence to avoid saying "She ground herself against him" because although correct, I fucking hate it.

 

[dirk2024]

I will literally rewrite the sentence to avoid saying "She ground herself against him" because although correct, I fucking hate it.

Tell me more...how would you write it? Use lot's of words.